Classical morphology and continuum morphology: Opposition and continuum

Annals of Botany

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 577-581

  Sattler, Rolf ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

categorical world view; cladistics; Classical plant morphology; classificatory type; complementarity; continuum morphology; evolutionary biology; extreme type; fuzzy logic; fuzzy morphology; morphological categories; open morphology; relational world view; typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029907296     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.1996.0163     Document Type: Article

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